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Q: VirtualBox DHCP server not leasing IPs in Host-only mode I am running host Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. There I have installed latest VirtualBox and imported VM that is running SLES 9 image. My default SLES 9 VM has preconfigured one network interface set to DHCP and I have no DHCP server on my network.
The objective is that after importing, SLES 9 VM will be used in headless mode and connected to by SSH but most importantly without any manual intervention i.e. opening the VM UI console and manually modifying network interface settings or similar.
Therefore I have thought about:

*

*Changing preconfigured network interface from Bridged mode to Host-only mode

*Adding second interface in Bridged mode (this one is to be configured)

*Adding host only adapter

*Turning on build in VirtualBox built-in DHCP server, using limited range of addresses to be assigned (1 possible address)

*Turning on guest VM and establishing connection to the one possible IP address

*There I would be running some bash scripts that would configure second interface to use static IP address that could be used for any further connections

*(Optional) remove first DHCP interface

Commands I have run after the VM import
Changing preconfigured network interface from Bridged mode to Host-only mode
VBoxManage modifyvm "sles9vm" –nic1 hostonly
VBoxManage modifyvm "sles9vm" –hostonlyadapter1 "vboxnet0"

Adding second interface in Bridged mode (this one is to be configured)
VBoxManage modifyvm "sles9vm" --nic2 bridged --bridgeadapter2 eth0

Adding host only adapter
VBoxManage hostonlyif create
VBoxManage hostonlyif ipconfig vboxnet0 --ip 192.168.56.1

Turning on build in VirtualBox built-in DHCP server, using limited range of addresses to be assigned (1 possible address)
VBoxManage dhcpserver add --ifname "vboxnet0" --ip 192.168.56.2 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --lowerip  192.168.56.5 --upperip 192.168.56.5 –enable

Turning on guest VM and establishing connection to the one possible IP address
VBoxManage startvm "sles9vm" --type headless

Now always when I try to SSH to 192.168.56.5 it does not simply work. Therefore I have tried to stop guest VM and to run it in the UI mode. Then I logged into the guest system and check ifconfig. As expected there were no DHCP assigned address. So I have tried to restart network interfaces on guest VM but I still get the same issue saying that no IP assigned yet ... waiting.
Therefore I would like to know if anybody has experience with similar setup and maybe knows that I am missing. I have read documentation on Virtual Box and lots of forums but this does not seems to be common problem.

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Following the final Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party tonight, the Magic Kingdom will begin offering its holiday entertainment during regular park hours.
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A Frozen Holiday Wish - 6:15pm.
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade - 12pm and 3:30pm.
Mickey's Most Merriest Celebration - 7pm, 8pm and 11pm.
A Totally Tomorrowland Christmas - 3:45pm, 4:45pm, 5:45pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm and 9:30pm.
VoicePlay (December 24 and 25) - 3:15pm, 4:15pm, 5:15pm and 6:15pm.
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Once the eclipse ended and I returned to work, the skies cleared and spring arrived. Of course. Nothing to be done, though: there's too much work left each Friday. But by 4:30, the light beckoned irresistibly towards the harbour.
The tide was far out when I arrived at Poole Harbour, speckled sand flats reflecting orange light from Brownsea. I scrambled down to the wet sands, splashed across the fishy puddles to the yacht club's spindly piers. A few folks clammed about in Wellies, tripods dotted the the sands, photographers jostling for the best light.
It was fun to play for an hour with light, lines, people and contrasts, splashing about in the muck beneath the docks.
I cut out towards the Chain Ferry as the sun set: the tide was really rushing in through the narrow inlet, beating against the crossing. A good chance for some emptier shots, beached bots and deserted lifeguard stations. But I'm liking the people-pictures better these days.
'still sorting out a new camera: the choice narrowed to three and lots of discussions with friends ongoing about the relative merits of lenses, sensors, and pixels. It will be interesting to see whether better kit makes for better photos.
The UK enjoyed a solar eclipse this morning,. Totality was over the Faro Islands, far north, but Dorset got 85% coverage of the sun. Maximum darkness was predicted for 9:30 in the morning,, so I was up early to get fresh bread and coffee from Parkstone so that I could settle in for the event comfortably.
It's an astronomic day in other ways as well. Equinox, where the sun lies directly above the equator for a few moments, was also today: the first day of spring.
'hard to tell locally, though. Temperatures are still barely above freezing and the only the hardiest trees are flowering.
I 'd hoped to see the crescent sun at mid-morning, but the day started grey and cloudy. BBC astronomer-royale Brian Cox (actually a particle physicist) was holding forth from Jodrell Bank, near Manchester. The skies were clear and sunny. Schoolchildren, dressed in welding goggles and trying to image the sun through colanders made, for a good backdrop. To the north, the Faro's were cloaked in cloud, but there were various airborne cameras broadcasting from clear skies in airplanes overhead. Apparently, for £5000, anyone could join.
As half-nine approached, it did get noticeably darker: car headlights went on and the birds got quiet. The commentators waxed about the 384,400km column of shadow moving across England. Cox dithered about the diamond ring effect of the sun's re-emergence. Contact with the reporter in the airplane flickered. Schoolkids spun wind gauges and twirled thermometers, participating in a survey off the effect of the eclipse on the weather. Everyone forgot to check in with the dark, frigid pictures from the ground in the barren Faro Islands.
Then it was over and past, the streets brightening, the birds did their 5 am thing, the BBC returning to regular talk about politics. But, since I used to teach astronomy at Columbia Basin College, so I still get excited about events like this, and it was cool to follow the coverage and pictures for a few hours. There is a big solar eclipse in the US in August 2017, 'probably the next chance I'll have to see one.
I'll miss Brian Cox, though.
For an expat, two confusing things happen in mid-March. The clocks jump ahead in the US two weeks before they do in Europe. And Mother's Day arrives ahead of the daffodils. Mothering Sunday, as its known locally, dawned frigid and windblown, ice on the car and low clouds over the coast. The local café's offered double scones for breakfast and free puddings in the evening; Tesco's piled a mountain of flowers for sale in every doorway.
My landlord let me know that a new couple would be joining me at 5 Woodside. I've had it to myself since Christmas, too quiet sometimes, and it will be nice (hopefully) to have company again. I gave the kitchens and bathrooms a good scrub, caught up the laundry and trimmed the ferns, washed winter's street grime off the car.
I've been looking for a good sculpture garden to visit, and the Cass Sculpture Foundation looked like a good one. Unfortunately, it turned out to be shut until April 11, when the new installations appear. Second choice was the Hansard Galllery, an avant garde offshoot of the University of Southampton which turned out to be closed for the season when I arrived. Nearby, students wrestled in paint and water for charity, but it didn't rise to 'art'.
I drove on to West Quay, looking for the museums and galleries that I had seen during an earlier visit. Unfortunately I'd confused my memories of nearby Portsmouth with the grittier Southampton dock area. There were satisfyingly large boats docked at Ocean Village, burly workers scrubbing the black hulls to a polished shine, but otherwise only cold wind across industrial landscapes.
Orienting to the local maps, I put a finger on the picturesque Lee-on-Solent for a last try at peaceful beach walks and cozy coffee shops appropriate to Mothering Day.
The village is beautifully set along the waterway, sailboats were racing and the Isle of Wight lay low and green across the channel. People shared ice cream with their mothers along the promenade.
'Windswept and mostly still shut for the season, the town nonetheless had a lovely little chocolate shop doing brisk business and a nice local diner to warm in after a brisk walk along the gravel beaches.
It's one of those days that I don't exactly find what I was looking for but had a satisfying adventure nonetheless. In part, I get a good story for the upcoming week's conversations (everyone will have recommendations for what to do in-season), and I lay markers for future outings and rambles along the coast.


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Q: Create an array with time intervals and add 2 hours I need to create an array of elements in javascript, which add 2 hours to a certain time I set.
I give an example. The time is
14:00.

I need, to create an array that contains all 30 minute intervals up to 16:00.

Ex
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30

A: Here is a function that produces the time specifications as strings. It can take an optional second argument to specify the end-time (16:00 in your question).
Two utility functions convert a time string to (and from) a number of minutes.
Finally, the result array is created with Array.from:

const toMinutes = str => str.split(":").reduce((h, m) => h * 60 + +m);

const toString = min => (Math.floor(min / 60) + ":" + (min % 60))
                       .replace(/\b\d\b/, "0$&");

function slots(startStr, endStr="16:00") {
    let start = toMinutes(startStr);
    let end = toMinutes(endStr);
    return Array.from({length: Math.floor((end - start) / 30) + 1}, (_, i) =>
        toString(start + i * 30)
    );
}

console.log(slots("14:00"));

A: What I would do was to create two methods: addTime and createDateArray.
On addTime function we use to convert a timestamp into a Date object so it is easier for you to manage rather than an 14:00 string.

const addTime = (_dateTimestamp, addHours, addMinutes, addSeconds) => {
 const date = new Date();
 date.setTime( _dateTimestamp );

 const newDate = new Date();
 if(addHours) newDate.setHours( date.getHours() + addHours );
 if(addMinutes) newDate.setMinutes( date.getMinutes() + addMinutes );
 if(addSeconds) newDate.setSeconds( date.getSeconds() + addSeconds );

 return newDate;
}

const createDateArray = (date, minuteInterval, amount) => {
  let array = [];
  for(let i = 1; i <= amount; i++) {
    const time = addTime( date, 0, minuteInterval * i, 0);
    array.push( time );
  }
  return array;
}

const dateToIncrement = new Date().getTime();
const minutesInterval = 30; // every 30 minutes
const amountTimes = 10; // will run through 10 times, so it'll calculate the minutes 10 times

const result = createDateArray( dateToIncrement, minutesInterval, amountTimes );

console.log(result);

You can also use the addTime function for other properties like hours and seconds if you wish by setting the second and last argument of the method.
I hope the code above makes sense and you can make use of it.

A: Here is function that generates time slots in specified boundaries, it's similar to trincot's answer, but doesn't use regex and works for the edge cases:

const timeStringToMinutes = (timeStr, separator) => timeStr.split(separator).reduce((h, m) => h * 60 + +m);

const minutesToTimeString = (minutes, separator) => {
    const minutesPart = (minutes % 60).toString().padStart(2, "0");
    const hoursPart = Math.floor(minutes / 60).toString().padStart(2, "0");
    return hoursPart + separator + minutesPart;
}

function generateTimeSlots(startStr, endStr, periodInMinutes, separator = ":") {
    let startMinutes = timeStringToMinutes(startStr, separator);
    let endMinutes = timeStringToMinutes(endStr, separator);
    const oneDayInMinutes = 1440;
    if (endMinutes >= oneDayInMinutes)
        endMinutes = oneDayInMinutes - 1;
    if (startMinutes <= 0)
        startMinutes = 0;

    return Array.from({ length: Math.floor((endMinutes - startMinutes) / periodInMinutes) + 1 }, (_, i) =>
        minutesToTimeString(startMinutes + i * periodInMinutes, separator)
    );
}

console.log(generateTimeSlots("14:00", "15:30", 30));

A: You can create a basic function like this :
   function getTimes(start) {
    start = parseInt(start) * 2 + (+start.slice(-2) > 0);
    end = start+60/12;
    return Array.from({length: end - start}, (_, i) =>
        (((i + start) >> 1) + ":" + ((i + start)%2*3) + "0").replace(/^\d:/, "0$&"));
};

And use with :
getTimes("14:00");


United Airlines has begun testing a new app that lets customers use their phones to make purchases at certain stores and earn extra United MileagePlus frequent-flier miles in the process.
So far, the MileagePlus X app is open only to a set of MileagePlus members invited to participate in a trial by United. The airline says the app will let customers use their iOS or Android smartphones for in-store purchases at retailers such as Lowe's, Sears, Gap and AMC Theaters.
Customers using the app can search nearby retailers and view the amount of miles they'll earn for making purchases with their app. United says users can also browse a catalog of all merchants or search for specific stores.
"At check-out, customers enter the total dollar amount of their purchase via the app, creating a digital merchant gift card. The cashier then scans the barcode to complete the gift card purchase. Award miles will instantly appear in members' accounts in addition to any miles the customer may earn purchasing the digital gift card with a MileagePlus Credit Card from Chase."
"The new MileagePlus X app builds on the increasing popularity of mobile purchasing, enabling members to make in-store purchases and earn miles without having to pull out a credit card," Praveen Sharma, United's VP of loyalty, says in a statement.
United says access to the MileagePlus X app will be expanded to "all members and (will) offer more retailers soon." Additionally, United promises future improvements that will include new features, including the ability to redeem miles for in-store purchases.


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Lenovo India appoints Amit Doshi as Chief Marketing Officer
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Lenovo India, a global technology brand and one of the world's leading PC and Tablet players, today announced the appointment of Amit Doshi as Chief Marketing Officer. After a successful stint with Lenovo India, Bhaskar Choudhuri is moving on to head Marketing for Lenovo Asia Pacific as Chief Marketing Officer. Amit will report to Bhaskar Choudhuri. Amit will be responsible for strengthening the Lenovo brand in India and South Asia to enable profitable growth across all business segments – Consumer, Enterprise and SMB. He will focus on deepening Digital and Data competencies towards building a more customer-centric organization.
Amit comes with over 15 years' experience in diverse sales, product innovation and marketing roles. Prior to joining Lenovo, Amit worked in the FMCG industry for 10 years and his last role was at Britannia Industries. Amit has been a significant contributor to the Lenovo business, in establishing the Lenovo brand in tablets and smartphones, initiating Lenovo's digital transformation journey and increasing Lenovo's consideration in the PC category.
Rahul Agarwal, Managing Director and CEO, Lenovo India said, "We are very pleased to elevate Amit to the role of Chief Marketing Officer. He has played a pivotal role in the Lenovo brand journey over the last five years and understands its pulse. Amit and his team have helped significantly grow Lenovo's unaided PC brand consideration and awareness in the Consumer PC business. We have also been able to establish Lenovo as a strong PC+ player with the Lenovo tablet brand, which has enabled our current position in the Tablet market as a top player. Today Lenovo PC brand in India is the strongest worldwide outside of China."
On his appointment, Amit Doshi, Chief Marketing Officer, Lenovo India said, "India is at an inflection point, when one talks about access to data and technology. Lenovo is an extremely dynamic company. It has a rich history of nurturing pioneering brands like ThinkPad and Yoga and I am really excited at the opportunity of leading marketing for them in India"
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Eating in moderation is a subjective term, meaning something slightly different depending on your perspective. Moderate, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, means observing reasonable limits and avoiding extremes in behavior or expression. Eating in moderation would be, therefore, eating only as much food as your body needs and consuming only those foods that are not outside the boundaries of normal human consumption. Individual perception of reasonable limits opens the door to a wide variety of complex answers for a seemingly simple question.
Perhaps the most obvious interpretation of eating in moderation deals with caloric intake. Eating in moderation means you do not consume more calories than your body needs to function properly. A person who does not eat a moderate number of calories gains weight, risking obesity and its associated illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. According to the American Diabetes Association, the average a 25-year-old woman who does moderate exercise daily needs about 2,000 calories each day, and a man of the same age and activity level ought to get 2,400 to 2,600 calories each day. This may be too high an intake for someone with a less active lifestyle without regular exercise. Speak with your doctor about your goals and the appropriate number of daily calories for you.
The quality of the food is an important factor when talking about eating in moderation. Consuming food your body does not need or want, such as excess sugar and fat, is an extreme in behavior or expression in that eating nutritionally poor foods has a detrimental effect on your body. Eating in moderation means consuming nutritionally dense food so your body gets all the vitamins and minerals it needs without harmful or needless substances. According to the MyPlate scheme from the USDA, a healthy dinner plate contains lean protein, whole-grain foods, fruits and vegetables.
Plan your plate to ensure you are eating the proper foods in moderation. Draw an imaginary line down the middle of your plate. Fill the left half your plate with fruits and vegetables. Draw another imaginary line to cut the right half of your plate into two quarters. Fill one section with lean meat and put whole-grain products in the other section. Have a glass of low-fat milk. Relax and enjoy your meal, consuming the food at a moderate pace.
According to a study published by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, people's perceptions of their own diets differ from what they actually eat. Adults actually ate more healthy grains than they thought but did not consume enough for a healthy diet. People also ate more fats, oils and sweets than they thought. In this study, the USDA suggests people don't understand what constitutes a serving. This lack of understanding affects a person's ability to set reasonable food limits and know when he is engaging in extreme behavior or expression.


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Five ATC Australian Derby Facts
The Group 1 ATC Australian Derby is the premier distance race in Australia and it always generates huge attention from the betting public. The prize money stands at a cool $2 million and it carries a great deal of prestige, so you always see a large and stellar field. The 2019 ATC Australian Derby will take place at Randwick on Saturday, 6 April, the opening day of The Championships. Here are five key facts about this race:
It was inaugurated all the way back in 1861.
This race is positively steeped in rich history and that helps to ensure its status as the top-ranked event for three-year-olds in Australian and New Zealand race classifications. It was originally run at 1.5 miles and then changed to 2,400m in 1972 as the metric system was introduced. It is a set weight contest for three-year-olds only, and it has seen some very famous winners over the years. It's A Dundeel, Octagonal and Bonecrusher are some of the most famous winners, while Levendi beat Ace High in a thriller last year. There was all manner of controversy as Tye Angland, rider of Ace High, sounded the protest alarm, arguing Levendi twice laid in and made contact in the final 100m, while Corey Brown suffered chest injuries in a fall. The race often produces plenty of drama, and punters should expect another exhilarating spectacle this year.
Colts and geldings dominate the Australian Derby.
Shamrocker is the only filly to win this race in the past 27 years as the males have totally dominated proceedings. Part of the reason for that trend is that the Australian Oaks takes place over the same distance the following Saturday and many prefer to rest their star females for that. You do see a few fillies gunning for glory though and they can take inspiration from the performance of Shamrocker, who upstaged the boys for a second time in 2011 and raced into the history books. That saw her become the first filly to ever win the Group 1 Australian Guineas / Group 1 AJC Derby double, and it sparked scenes of celebration in her native New Zealand.
Eleven favourites have won this race in the past 36 years.
The last favourite to salute was Criterion at $2.88 as he surged to victory in 2014. Since then Mongolian Khan won at $6.50, Tavago defied odds of $31 to win in 2016 and $7.50 shot Jon Snow landed the race in 2017. Last year Ace High went off as the $5 favourite and he lost to $6 second favourite Levendi by a nose. This year it looks like either Chapada or Global Exchange could go off as the ATC Australian Derby favourite, according to the odds currently listed at https://www.punters.com.au/. The shortest priced favourite was It's A Dundeel, who headed into the 2013 renewal in sensational form and lived up to the hype by winning at just $1.25. The worst performing favourite in recent times was Sunray, who finished 11th.
Barrier 8 has yielded seven winners since 1983.
That makes it the most successful barrier in that period, although Barrier 1 is not far behind as it has produced six winners. Barrier 3 has yielded five winners, while Barriers 2, 4, 9 and 14 have accounted for two each. Barriers 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16 are the least successful, with just one win. Last year's winner, Levendi, came from Barrier 3, while second-placed Ace High was in Barrier 2. Barrier 8 failed to live up to its name as Mission Hill finished all the way back in 13th place.
Octagonal holds the record time for this race.
'The Big O' was an absolute legend and he remains the last horse to have won the Triple Crown. He was crowned Australian Champion Two-Year-Old after delivering a superb autumn campaign and he roared into his three-year-old season with tremendous promise. He delivered on that in style, landing the Cox Plate, the Victoria Derby, the Canterbury Guineas, the Rosehill Guineas and the Mercedes Classic, all at Group 1. 'The Occy' capped it all by seizing the Australian Derby in his final appearance of the season, leaving Saintly and the rest of the chasing pack well behind. His time of 2:28.41 remains a record to this day and it would take a phenomenal effort from one of this year's hopefuls to knock Octagonal off his perch.
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Q: Set language in each action for multilanguage I have a problem with the way I have set multi langugae in my MVC project.  Right now I have a function which sets the selected language :
public void SetLanguage(string lang)
{
        CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo(lang);
        System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci;
}

This is OK and sets the language but I need to do this in all the actions of my controller.
The language is obtained from the URL  containing an id as parameter.  This id is encrypted and contains some info among the language.
So the first time the user login in the app, the id is created and encrypted and is passed as parameter in the url.
Then the parameter is recuperated from the URL, decrypted and the language is set using the above code.
But I need to do this, set the language each time, in each action.  Any idea why is this so?  How and to set the language only once so that I don't need to call the SetLanguage method in each action.


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Polish Olympian Katarzyna Zillmann tells the world she's queer after winning silver
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Olympic rower Katarzyna Zillmann has opened up about being queer after winning a silver medal for Poland on Wednesday (28 July).
Zillmann won silver with her team in the quadruple sculls and, speaking to reporters afterwards, thanked her girlfriend, according to Advocate.
The Olympian explained that she has been open about being in a same-sex relationship, even speaking to the media about it previously, but it had never been reported.
"The conversations with you after the medal race were not groundbreaking for me," she told Sportowe Fakty.
"I've already talked about it in interviews before, but for some reason, it wasn't published."
Now that the public knows she is queer, however, she wants to use her platform as an Olympic medallist to advocate for the LGBT+ community.
She continued: "I know that in this way I will help others.
"It was enough that I showed up in a T-shirt with the words 'Sport against homophobia' and I got a few messages from young girls practicing rowing.
Beautiful day! #pol Poland got its first medal at the #Olympics – silver for our girls in #Rowing also one of them Katarzyna Zillmann greeted her girlfriend #loveislove which made TVP a bit dizzy haha such an icon! pic.twitter.com/vmJGVoJRK1
— Łukasz (@eurovibez) July 28, 2021
"One of them opened up to me, described her difficult home situation to me, and confessed that I helped her a lot with my attitude.
"One such message is enough to completely forget about thousands of hate comments and disgusted faces."
Katarzyna Zillmann is from Poland, where there has been an increase in government-sponsoring homophobia in recent years
Katarzyna Zillmann's openness is even more significant as she is from Poland, which has seen an increase in homophobia at the hands of its government in recent years.
In an incident widely described as the "Polish Stonewall", last year protesters were violently detained by police after rallying to support Margot Szutowicz, arrested after allegedly damaging a van covered in homophobic graffiti.
Later, reports of protesters being beaten and sexually assaulted in custody began to come to light in local media.
Infamously, more than 100 regions in Poland have declared themselves "LGBT-free zones".
This month, the homophobic trend resulted in an announcement by the European Union that it would be launching legal action against the country.
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Woman shot, killed at WCH apartment
Ex-boyfriend arrested for aggravated murder Monday evening
WASHINGTON C.H. — A woman was killed by multiple gunshots during a reported domestic incident Monday evening at the Pine Tree Apartment complex on Joanne Drive off of US Route 22 East.
Lilliana M. Null, 20, of Cincinnati, was the victim, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, and her ex-boyfriend, Joseph A. Brown, 21, of Washington C.H., was arrested for aggravated murder.
According to Sheriff Vernon Stanforth, just after 6 p.m. his office received a call indicating that a man had shot a female at the rear of the apartment buildings on Joanne Drive. The initial call reported that the assailant was still in possession of the firearm and remained in the area.
When deputies arrived they encountered a man exiting the front of an apartment in building 16 and learned that he was the alleged shooter. Brown was detained by deputies, Stanforth said.
As additional deputies and detectives from the sheriff's office arrived, the victim, identified as Null, was found in the rear yard behind building 15, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
"Fayette County EMS responded at the scene but were unable to find signs of life," said Stanforth.
Null was pronounced dead at the scene by the Fayette County Coroner's Office. Null's boyfriend, who was a witness to the shooting, and an infant child of Brown and Null were unharmed in the incident.
According to Stanforth, preliminary information in the investigation indicates that Brown and Null recently separated and that Null was bringing their infant child to the residence for visitation.
"It's our understanding that the situation began to deteriorate inside the apartment," said Stanforth. "She apparently ran out of the front of the apartment into the back yard and that is when he shot her multiple times."
Custody of the child has been relinquished to Fayette County Children Services for further disposition. Also responding to the scene were members of the Fayette County Prosecutor's Office.
Brown was taken to the Fayette County Jail and was charged with aggravated murder. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Washington C.H. Municipal Court.
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Indy agrees to terms with rookie forward
Forward Michael McNicholas signs with Fuel after completing NCAA career at the University of New Hampshire
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indy Fuel, proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks and the AHL's Rockford IceHogs, announced Tuesday that they have signed rookie forward Michael McNicholas to an ECHL contract.
McNicholas, 23, is looking to make his professional debut after recently completing his senior season at the University of New Hampshire. The 5-foot-10, 174-pound forward led the Wildcats in scoring this season, posting 24 points (5g, 19a) in 36 games. Over his four year NCAA career, McNicholas accrued a total of 22 goals and 58 assists over 117 games, including a career-high 43 points (13g, 30a) in 2016-17.
Prior to his collegiate career, McNicholas played two seasons in the British Columbia Hockey League, where he collected 33 goals and 68 assists in 91 total games from 2012 to 2014 with the Vernon Vipers and the Nanaimo Clippers. The native of Manhattan Beach, Calif. also spent a season in the United States Hockey League with the Muskegon Lumberjacks in 2011-2012, where he tallied five goals and four assists in 48 contests.
The Fuel begin another crucial three-game weekend Friday as they host the Cincinnati Cyclones for Nickelodeon Night at Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Both teams will wear SpongeBob Squarepants-themed uniforms, with characters from the hit show set to be in attendance as well.
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Sub-Lieutenant George "Jimmy" Green, 551 Flotilla, has died.
We have just learned that Jimmy Green has died. Sub-Lieutenant George Green carried the men of the A company, 116th Regiment, 29th Division onto Dog Green, Omaha Beach on landing craft in the very first minutes of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. Read more...
Virginia Beach - Cary Lee Jarvis, 94, of Virginia Beach, died April 28, 2016
He was a staff sergeant when he landed D-Day, first wave, on Omaha beach, a member of the C-Battery of the 111th Artillery Battalion, 29th Division. Read more...
OMAHA BEACH MEMORIAL - TESTIMONIES
Captain John R. Armellino
3rd Battalion
Company L
Upon our arrival at our destination off the coast of France, we were given orders to disembark from the mother ship onto the landing craft. My men went over the side onto rope ladders hanging from the ship. The soldiers, fully equipped, climbed down these ladders into the landing craft, which were rolling and turning in the rough waters of the English Channel. We started towards Omaha Beach. One of my landing craft was swamped by the violent seas and sank. To this day, I don't know how many of those men were lost. Since we were the first combat wave, there was complete silence on the way to the beach. You could hear a pin drop. We didn't know what to expect when we landed. We soon found out...
About a quarter-mile from the beach, all hell broke loose. The landing craft came under an intense attack, including mortar and artillery fire. One of my landing craft took a direct hit from enemy fire as it was unloading onto the beach. Half the men on this craft had already left the boat when it was hit. Some of these men crossed the beach. The remainder were either killed or wounded. As we landed, enemy fire peppered the ramps as they were lowered to allow my men to disembark and cross the 200 yards of open beach. The German pillboxes and machine-gun nests were laying a vicious crossfire on the beach. Many men were cut down as they left the landing craft. Small-arms, mortar, and artillery fire were all concentrated on the landing area, but we suffered our greatest casualties just after touching down because of the crossfire of the German automatic weapons.
Few of the landing craft were able to make a dry landing. Most of them grounded on sand bars 50 to 100 yards off the beach. The water was neck deep. Some men climbed over the sides of the landing craft trying to avoid enemy fire. We lost some of these men because in the excitement they failed to open their garrison belts and the weight of their equipment took them under water. Some of these men drowned while others shed the equipment and swam to shore. The water was loaded with obstacles to which mines were attached. Those who reached shore started running across the beach through heavy machine-gun crossfire, mortars, and artillery fire. We headed towards a bluff to give us cover. I lost many of those young soldiers who joined my company right before the invasion in England. They had no fear and failed to hit the ground after every few yards running directly for cover. The more seasoned men hit the ground very often as a result avoided being hit by enemy fire. After reaching the cover of the bluff, I began to reorganize my Company. I had approximately 125 men left of the 200 I started with. I directed my Lieutenants to organize their sections for the start of the attack to knock out the pillboxes and to advance to and capture our objective - Colleville-sur-Mer.
I directed one of my Officers, Lieutenant Monteith, to move his section up a draw to take out a pillbox that was laying heavy automatic fire on the beach. The other sections were ordered to move up on his flanks towards the Village of Colleville-sur-Mer. Lieutenant Monteith accomplished his mission, knocking out the pillbox, and taking several German prisoners. In the process of doing so, Lieutenant Monteith was killed by German automatic fire coming from this bunker. He had exposed himself to enemy fire time and time again while repeatedly standing up to lead his section. I recommended Lieutenant Monteith for the Congressional Medal of Honor, which he received posthumously for his brave deeds.
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ADP is one of the leading production houses for animation in Norway. The acronym ADP (Animasjonsdepartementet) is part of a re-positioning to increase the amount of work and recruitment outside of Norway.
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The primary need of ADP was to present its work in a dynamic way aligned with the nature of their business, animation.
The solution was to strip a lot of the existing content from the page. Facebook and Instagram became the main distribution channels for news about the company, while Vimeo handles the full video archive. (Organic search performance was not important to ADP). The new site puts the work behind the wheel. Several small video loops breaths life onto the pages.


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Opinion | Could Fusion Arrive in Time to Solve Climate Change? – The New York Times
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Naval Postgraduate School partners with Stanford to tackle climate change – The Mercury News
The Naval Postgraduate School signed an Education Partnership Agreement with Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability on Thursday to tackle climate change and its impacts. NPS president Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau and Dean of the Doerr School of Sustainability Arun…
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Pots by artists from Hermannsburg, west of Alice Springs, feature in a landmark exhibition at Adelaide's JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design.
Called From the Earth , it is the first time ceramics from remote indigenous centres have been brought together.
JamFactory managing director Stephen Bowers said interest in ceramics has been growing in Aboriginal communities since the early 1990s.
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Off from work for a week or two? The kids on winter break from school? Don't just cozy up in the house the whole time. This holiday season, spend quality time with family and friends in the great outdoors, Girl Scout style!
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Montagu agrees to sell Maincare
Montagu, a leading European private equity firm, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to sell Maincare, a provider of software for French public hospitals and health authorities, to Docaposte, the digital arm of La Poste, the French postal service.
Maincare provides an end-to-end hospital information system offering in France, where it is a leader in electronic patient records as well as hospital administration, interoperability, and telemedicine solutions. Through its integrated software suite, it assists public hospitals, payers, and insurers to implement successful digital strategies for the benefit of patients.
Since Montagu acquired Maincare in 2018, it has worked with the business to respond to the rapidly changing needs of policymakers and hospitals, in particular in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Significant investments in R&D led to the development of new-generation electronic patient records as well as the modernisation of Maincare's technology ensuring that products are interoperable, SaaS-ready, and at the forefront of innovation in terms of cyber-security.
Under Montagu's ownership, Maincare's historically acquired business lines were combined from an organisational and technology standpoint, introducing a shared vision and strategy to the business and driving efficiencies. Led by a strong and unified management team, the changes helped to establish a customer-centric culture which put the needs of medical personnel and patients at the centre of the organisation.
Montagu Partner Guillaume Jabalot said, "Maincare is a great example of Montagu's strategy of partnering with leading companies offering critical products and services. We are proud of the success Maincare has achieved and we are certain that the company will continue to thrive under the ownership of Docaposte. We especially would like to thank the management team and all Maincare's employees for their hard work and dedication and we wish them all the best on their future journey."
Maincare is a great example of Montagu's strategy of partnering with leading companies offering critical products and services.
Guillaume Jabalot, Partner, Montagu
François-Xavier Floren, CEO of Maincare, commented: "The partnership with Docaposte will allow us to address one of the major challenges of our market – the importance of offering customers long-term support with a trusted partner present in software, hosting and services. Over the last two years, with the support of Montagu, we successfully carried out a transformation plan aimed at improving one of the persistent challenges of the French hospital system by "Giving time back to the Caregivers". The management team and all Maincare's employees are confident that the partnership with Docaposte will bring further significant value to our clients and to the market."
Over the last two years, with the support of Montagu, we successfully carried out a transformation plan aimed at improving one of the persistent challenges of the French hospital system by "Giving time back to the Caregivers".
François-Xavier Floren, CEO, Maincare
The transaction remains subject to the approval of the French competition authority.
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IK Partners and Keensight Capital to agree on the sale of Quanos
Leading pan-European private equity house IK Partners ("IK") is pleased to announce that the IK Small Cap II Fund ("IK SC II") has signed an agreement to sell Quanos Solutions GmbH ("Quanos" or "the Company"), a leading developer of software and technology solutions for smart information, to Keensight Capital ("Keensight"), one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout[1] investments.
Headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, Quanos is the global leader for industrial aftersales and digital technical documentation software. The Company offers a comprehensive product portfolio that enables customers to realise substantial cost and time savings, increase operational efficiency, drive profits of aftersales and service activities and enable customers to digitise aftersales services and offerings.
The Company has more than 1,000 customers worldwide who place their trust in Quanos' software solutions and are served by 270 employees. Quanos' software offering is focused on original equipment manufacturers and operators, thereby catering to a diversified customer base ranging from global champions to small to medium-sized enterprises.
The Company has recently launched its next-generation cloud platform (InfoTwin), bringing together the power of content and service solutions in one place. The integrated, modular software solutions enable customers to take a 360° view on their products to optimise service processes and efficiency, offer new service models and ultimately to increase customer satisfaction.
IK invested in Quanos in November 2018. Through M&A, three leading software companies were combined to create a market-leading platform for software and technology solutions for smart information. The Quanos brand was launched in 2020 with support from IK's Operations team.
Keensight Capital will support Quanos' team, led by Nikolaus Scholz, in its next phase of growth. The Company is well-positioned to further digitise the aftersales market, with massive potential to expand its solutions and services offering, market penetration and international reach, both organically and through acquisitions.
Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed.
Nikolaus Scholz, CEO at Quanos, said: "With IK's support, we have been able to achieve a lot in a short period of time. From the brand and vision building to operational initiatives to the design of a product roadmap, we have a solid foundation on which we can grow further. We thank Nils and the team at IK for their invaluable support over the last few years and look forward to partnering with Keensight as we embark on the next phase of our journey."
Nils Pohlmann, Partner and Advisor to the IK SC II Fund, said: "It has been fantastic to work with Nikolaus and his team to create Quanos and develop the platform into a market-leading software and solutions provider. The Company's value proposition and vision are fully aligned with key trends. Quanos is in a prime position to shape the ongoing digitalisation wave in industrial aftersales and services. We wish Nikolaus and the team every success for the future."
Stanislas de Tinguy, Partner at Keensight, said: "We have been very impressed with Quanos' journey to date and the way in which it has undergone significant transformation to become a software powerhouse. Under Nikolaus' leadership, the Company has gone from strength to strength, and we look forward to building on this and exploring new growth strategies."
Completion of the transaction is subject to relevant legal and regulatory approvals.
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Vidya Verlkumar
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Yoann Besse
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[1]Growth Buyout: investment in profitable, private companies experiencing strong growth, in minority or majority positions, with or without leverage, using a flexible approach tailored to the needs of individual entrepreneurs, in order to finance organic growth projects, acquisition strategies or provide historic shareholders with liquidity.
About Quanos
Quanos – that is the association of software experts who develop unique software products and solutions for aftersales, service and technical documentation. More than 1000 customers worldwide trust in the innovative, successful and sustainable technology of Quanos. Our 270 employees have more than 20 years of market experience and contribute to the uniqueness of Quanos: We work closely together, complement each other and benefit from each other's know-how. True to our motto "Passion for smart information", we live our mission every day: we help people understand machines better. For more information, visit www.quanos.com
About IK Partners
IK Partners ("IK") is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK. Since 1989, IK has raised more than €14 billion of capital and invested in over 170 European companies. IK supports companies with strong underlying potential, partnering with management teams and investors to create robust, well-positioned businesses with excellent long-term prospects. For more information, visit www.ikpartners.com
About Keensight
Keensight Capital ("Keensight"), one of the leading European Growth Buyout firms, is committed to supporting entrepreneurs as they implement their growth strategies. For over 20 years, Keensight Capital's team of seasoned professionals has leveraged their knowledge of investment and growth industries to invest for the long term in profitable companies with high growth potential and revenues in the range of €10 million to €400 million. Drawing on its expertise in the Technology and Healthcare sectors, Keensight identifies the best investment opportunities in Europe and works closely with management teams to develop and achieve their strategic vision. Keensight Capital's success has also earned it a Gold Award from the Private Equity Exchange & Awards each year for the last six consecutive years, and in particular, the Best European Growth Private Equity Fund. www.keensightcapital.com
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Hg agrees to sale of Transporeon for €1.88 billion
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highly successful partnership between Hg and the Transporeon team has led to continued strong revenue and EBITDA growth since 2019, furthering Transporeon's mission to bring transportation in sync with the world.
Ulm, Germany and London, United Kingdom. 12 December 2022. Hg, a leading software and services investor, today announces the sale of Transporeon, a leading cloud-based transportation management software platform, to Trimble in a transaction valuing the business at an enterprise value of €1.88 billion.
Transporeon provides a leading cloud-based logistics and transport management platform, solving 360-degree freight problems by enabling automation, real-time insights and collaboration on €48bn of annual freight. This is all handled on a modern SaaS platform which enables more efficient tendering, dispatching, scheduling, real time tracking and better communication between the around 1,400 enterprises looking to move freight and close to 145 000 carriers – all whilst helping to reduce 30% waste in global transportation and to lower CO2 emissions.
A 20+ year focus on software businesses across Europe and North America led to Hg following the business and engaging with the team for almost a decade prior to investing in 2019. Since then, the business has seen strong growth and continued margin expansion across various cycles.
This robust performance has been enabled by continuous product investment and strategic initiatives, whilst also adding new offerings to Transporeon's suite both through additional partnerships and five strategic tuck-in acquisitions.
"The past three years has significantly accelerated Transporeon forward in our mission to bring transportation in sync with the world. Innovation in our products and an expansion of the business has meant we have built a remarkable platform in a rapidly growing sector, with solutions that are in high demand globally. This would not have been possible without the software expertise delivered by Hg. The management team thank everyone at Hg and Transporeon who have worked hard together to put us in this very advantageous position".
Stephan Sieber, Chief Executive Officer at Transporeon
"We tracked Transporeon for many years, impressed with its globally unique logistics network, solving real supply chain issues in a heavily under-digitized sector. It has been a hugely rewarding, working initially with the founders Marc and Martin, and then with Stephan and the team to build on this. We're particularly proud to have enabled several new solutions which have proved immensely valuable to customers and the wider global community, like AI-based analytics and prediction tools to facilitate carbon footprint reduction, whilst also expanding our addressable sector via strategic acquisitions. We wish the team the very best wishes as part of Trimble"
Stefan Margolis, Partner at Hg
"Transporeon is at the forefront of freight industry digitalisation and its cloud-based solutions continue to reduce complexity and increase efficiency for a large fragmented global logistics sector. We're delighted for the team. We're also proud to continue to deliver on our purpose, to return funds back to clients, with $7 billion returned during 2022."
Justin von Simson, Managing Partner at Hg
The sale marks the fourth full Hg realisation to a strategic buyer in the last 12 months, having previously sold Medifox to ResMed, Allocate Software to RL Datix and itm8 which merged with AddPro, all contributing to over $7 billion collectively returned to clients in the last 12 months.
The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2023, subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals.
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Tom Eckersley, Hg
tom.eckersley@hgcapital.com
Azadeh Varzi, Brunswick Group
hg@brunswickgroup.com
About Transporeon
At Transporeon, our mission is to bring transportation in sync with the world. We power the largest global freight network of +1,300 industrial shippers, +100 large retailers and +145,000 carriers and logistics service providers. They execute 220,000 transactions per day on our platform and process around €48bn in freight spend per year.
Our leading Transportation Management Platform connects all actors along the supply chain. It facilitates collaboration between the different parties, helps to automate manual processes and provides valuable real-time insights. The modular Application Hubs solve specific logistics challenges and range from freight sourcing over transport execution and dock and yard management to freight audit and payment. Data hubs provide insights into logistics operations, market developments and carbon emissions, next to ensuring transparency in the supply chain through visibility. Our platform works across all geographies and all modes of transportation, empowering logistics teams to move, manage and monitor freight.
Transporeon is headquartered in Ulm, Germany, and maintains 18 offices around the globe with +1,400 employees across 27 countries. For more information visit www.transporeon.com.
Hg is a platform for software and services champions, focused on backing businesses that change how we all do business. Deep technology expertise, complemented by vertical application specialisation and dedicated operational support, provides a compelling proposition to management teams looking to scale their businesses.
Hg has funds under management of over $55 billion, with an investment team of over 160 professionals, including a portfolio team of almost 50 operators, providing practical support to help our businesses to realise their growth ambitions. Based in London, Munich, New York, Paris and San Francisco, Hg has a portfolio of over 46 software and technology businesses, worth over $100 billion aggregate enterprise value, with over 90,000 employees globally, growing at over 20% per year.
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BGF leads major investment in Makers to champion diversity and talent in tech
Makers, the London based provider of tech talent, has raised £7 million in a funding round led by BGF alongside existing investors Forward Partners and Educapital.
With this investment Makers will offer a wider variety of tech bootcamp and apprenticeship courses over the next three years. These will open up 5,000 opportunities in tech for people who would not otherwise have had access and provide Makers' clients with diverse talent across their tech teams.
Founded in 2012, Makers identifies high potential career switchers without a background in tech, trains them as software engineers and helps place them with leading companies. Since its founding, the company has trained more than 3,000 people to become software engineers, successfully placing candidates with global brands including Google and Deloitte Digital.
As part of its mission, Makers is committed to championing diversity in tech. In addition to free apprenticeship programmes for students, 30% of places on its Bootcamp courses are taken as full scholarships, 40% of students are women (double the UK tech industry average) and 40% are from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds.
Led by BGF's London-based investor Rahul Satsangi, this investment will help Makers expand its course portfolio, increasing the supply of highly trained and diverse candidates to address the significant labour gap in the UK technology industry.
Claudia Harris OBE, CEO of Makers (pictured), commented: "Ten years ago, Makers launched the first European Coding Bootcamp and five years later we continued to innovate, becoming early providers of software engineering apprenticeships. Now, with this investment, we will expand our offer across more technical disciplines, increasing the opportunity for people to switch careers into tech and enabling employers to fulfil all of their tech talent needs.
"We are driven by a vision of a tech industry that represents society and where people from all backgrounds can find work that they love. Tech shapes every aspect of our lives but is disproportionately run by people from a narrow segment of society. That needs to change. That's why we recruit students from all backgrounds and from the day we were founded 10 years ago we have never focused on qualifications, just potential.
"We are incredibly grateful to our existing investors Forward Partners and Educapital for their continued support – and we are delighted to be working with BGF now as we take another step towards fulfilling our vision. From our early meetings it was clear that BGF's investment team share our values and we are pleased to have their support during our next chapter."
Rahul Satsangi, Investor at BGF, remarked: "Makers represents a unique and exciting opportunity to invest in a fast-growing mission-led business making a real difference promoting diversity in the tech sector. We are looking forward to working with Claudia and her dedicated senior leadership team to help drive the business forward in its next exciting stage of growth."
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Openbravo joins DL Software
We are delighted to share that Adara portfolio company, Openbravo, is joining DL Software, a leading France-based group of vertical software providers, as part of its ambitious path to internationalize its business footprint.
Founded in 2001 in Pamplona, Spain, Openbravo helps brands and retailers looking to accelerate their unified commerce strategy and increase the agility of their operations. The fully-modular platform integrates online and offline channels, provides intelligent order management, real-time views of customers and inventory, and a complete store solution to deliver more personalized experiences.
Openbravo's all-in-one cloud-based solution is used by international companies such as Decathlon, Flunch, Norauto, Sharaf DG, BUT, Toys 'R' Us Iberia, and Zôdio – reaching over 50 countries and more than 10,000 back office users and 40,000 customer touchpoints, such as point of sale and self-service terminals, kiosks, and others.
The acquisition is part of DL Software's pan-European growth strategy to position itself as an international specialist in multi-sector vertical software.
"We are extremely excited to become part of a larger company ready to help us accelerate on our growth strategy. DL Software has an excellent reputation, and this acquisition represents an important recognition of our solutions, the team, and our achievements to date," said Marco de Vries, CEO of Openbravo.
"This will help us take our business to the next level and that will benefit our existing and future employees, customers, and partners. I would also like to thank, in the name of all our employees, our previous shareholders Amadeus Capital, Adara Ventures and SODENA, for their fantastic support and guidance over the past years."
We wish the entire Openbravo team the best as they start this new chapter!
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Regnology deepens last mile reporting expertise with b.fine acquisition Regnology, a leading software provider with an exclusive focus on regulatory reporting solutions, announces today that it has acquired b.fine, a Belgian RegTech firm which assists financial institutions on the enhancement of their reporting supply chain.
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Belgium, b.fine has grown to a team of nearly 50 that serves over 30 institutional clients across banks, insurance companies and investment firms. b.fine significantly reduces the regulatory burden for financial institutions by offering them an all-encompassing platform for managing their regulatory reporting processes.
It is the first platform that goes beyond regulatory reporting and fully digitises and automates the journey of a reporting team, allowing financial institutions to regain control and oversight of their different regulatory reporting streams.
b.fine's cloud-enabled technology complements Regnology's existing regulatory and supervisory reporting offering by enhancing its last-mile reporting capabilities and accelerating the firm's ability to serve an extended pan-European market.
Rob Mackay, CEO of Regnology:
"b.fine has a fantastic track record of growth, and in delivering quality solutions to clients. Right from the start we were impressed by what the company has achieved in such a short space of time. We were attracted by the strong synergies between our offerings and are excited to pursue our combined ambition to address the evolution of regulatory reporting through the provision of an innovative product and service offering."
Klaas Van Imschoot, CEO of b.fine:
"We are looking forward to becoming part of the incredibly successful team at Regnology, with a shared vision to help clients adapt to the demands of an increasingly complex regulatory system."
Bert De Vriendt, CFO of b.fine
"By joining forces with Regnology, we believe we can allow for better integration between SupTech and RegTech, and utilise its strong connections to deliver greater automatisation and standardisation practices to new clients across Europe and beyond."
About b.fine
b.fine, established in 2017, is a Belgian-based RegTech scale-up with an ambition to industrialize the regulatory reporting processes for financial institutions. It comprises a team of nearly 50 RegTech experts, leading financial institutions to the next era of regulatory reporting Today, more than 30 financial institutions in the Benelux rely on b.fine's unique mix of services and solutions to transform their time-consuming reporting processes into an effective reporting supply chain. b.fine is part of the prestigious RegTech100, and its platform was recognized in 2022 as "Best Regulatory Reporting Solution" by RegTech Insight.
Arsenal Capital Partners Increases Investment in Global Biosimulation Leader Certara with $449M Stock Purchase
rsenal will acquire approximately 30M shares at $15 per share from funds controlled by EQT Private Equity and agrees to two-year lock-up on sale of shares
Princeton, N.J.- Certara, Inc. (Nasdaq: CERT) today announced that Arsenal Capital Partners ("Arsenal"), a private equity firm specializing in investing in and building transformational healthcare companies, has committed to make a new $449M investment in Certara. Arsenal currently owns approximately 4% of common shares outstanding and will acquire approximately 30M additional shares from funds controlled by EQT Private Equity ("EQT"), at a price of $15 per share. Upon closing of the transaction, which is subject to HSR regulatory approval, Arsenal will own approximately 22% of diluted shares outstanding.
Arsenal is deeply familiar with Certara's value proposition for all stakeholders. The firm previously held a majority stake in the company before selling a controlling interest to EQT in 2017. Arsenal continued to maintain a minority equity interest both before and after Certara's initial public offering in 2020.
In a separate agreement with the company, Arsenal has agreed to a two-year lock-up prohibiting any sale of the newly purchased shares without company approval, reflecting Arsenal's commitment to being a long-term shareholder. Arsenal will also have the right, subject to maintaining certain ownership percentages, to nominate up to two board members, including current board member Stephen McLean. Following the closing of the transaction, Arsenal Operating Partner David Spaight is expected to join the board, and current board members Eric Liu and Ethan Waxman of EQT will step down from the board.
"We are pleased to further enhance our long-term-oriented shareholder base via a significant new investment from Arsenal," said William F. Feehery, Chief Executive Officer of Certara. "Arsenal has been invested in Certara for almost a decade, is confident in the critical role of biosimulation within drug discovery and development, and shares in our strategic vision for the business. I also want to thank EQT for its leadership and strategic partnership since 2017, highlighted by the company's IPO in 2020."
Stephen McLean, a Senior Partner of Arsenal, said, "This transaction reflects our long-term advocacy for, and conviction in, the strategic importance of biosimulation in drug development. It also reflects our belief in the long-term prospects of Certara, our admiration for William Feehery's leadership, and our trust in the entire Certara management team. We look forward to our continued partnership with Certara and to further supporting its efforts to enable more efficacious development of therapies and cures for human disease."
Eric Liu, Partner, Head of North American Private Equity, and Co-Head of the Global Healthcare Sector Team at EQT, added, "EQT is proud to have been part of Certara's remarkable journey during the last five years. We would like to thank the management team for their trusted partnership. EQT is confident that Arsenal will continue to be a great shareholder as Certara builds on its strong momentum, and we look forward to the company's continued success."
About Certara
Certara accelerates medicines using proprietary biosimulation software, technology and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Its clients include more than 2,000 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 62 countries.
David Deuchler
Gilmartin Group
ir@certara.com
Daniel Yunger
daniel.yunger@kekstcnc.com
Jackie Schofield
Prosek Partners
Pro-Arsenal@prosek.com
Eudonet announces the acquisition of GiveXpert
Eudonet is the French leader in vertical CRM software for charities, professional associations, higher education and the public sector. The company is also present in Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands and the UK. Today, Eudonet is pleased to announce the acquisition of Carisinfo and its solution provider GiveXpert.
GiveXpert is a leading provider of online donation solutions in France having supported over 200 clients to raise more than 228 million euros since 2015. The SaaS platform allows non-profit organisations to attract donors and to design and manage their fundraising campaigns.
Through this combination, Eudonet will be able to increase investments in the GiveXpert solution and to offer it to all Eudonet's clients who wish to run online fundraising campaigns. Both R&D teams have already started working together to offer their respective clients the best combination of CRM and online fundraising.
GiveXpert clients will benefit from full data integration with their CRM if they use Eudonet. Similarly, Eudonet clients will be able to seamlessly manage their donation campaigns using GiveXpert directly from their CRM. Furthermore, Eudonet's international presence provides a unique opportunity to expand the GiveXpert solution outside of France.
Antoine Henry, CEO of Eudonet, said: "We are very pleased to welcome the GiveXpert team, their product offering, and their customers to the Eudonet group. This acquisition strengthens our offering in a strategic area for our clients allowing them to further develop their web presence and enhance their fundraising. It demonstrates our commitment to invest in the charity market to better serve our clients."
We are very pleased to welcome the GiveXpert team, their product offering, and their customers to the Eudonet group.
Antoine Henry, CEO , Eudonet,
Alexandre Ayad, CEO of Carisinfo, adds: "After 13 years of autonomy, it seemed to us that the time had come to join a group in order to develop the GiveXpert solution with new resources and thus enable it to be distributed even more widely, particularly abroad. Eudonet is a leader in CRM solutions and, what's more, a French company that places social impact at the heart of its concerns, which was essential for us."
Eudonet is a leader in CRM solutions and, what's more, a French company that places social impact at the heart of its concerns, which was essential for us.
Alexandre Ayad, CEO, Carisinfo
Cinven to acquire TaxAct
Cinven will bring TaxAct and Drake Software, a Cinven portfolio company, together over time under a new holding company, creating a leading, full-service tax solutions provider for professionals and consumers
LONDON, November 1, 2022 – International private equity firm, Cinven, today announces that it has reached an agreement to acquire TaxAct for approximately $720 million. Following closing of the transaction, Cinven will bring the business together with existing portfolio company Drake Software ("Drake" or the "Company") under a single holding company. This will create a full-service tax ecosystem provider with the scope to use the resources and shared principles of the combined businesses to innovate and support their complementary professional tax preparer and individual tax filer customer bases.
TaxAct is one of the leading providers of digital, do-it-yourself ("DIY") tax filing assistance software and services, operating in a fast growing subset of the U.S. tax preparation services market. Since it was founded in 1998, TaxAct has grown rapidly, providing DIY tax filing services to more than 85 million individual filers to date, and was the first online software provider to offer free tax filing services.
With a 45-year track record of best-in-class products and services, Drake Software is a leading provider of comprehensive professional tax preparation software, servicing more than 70,000 tax offices throughout the U.S. In 2021, Cinven made a significant investment in Drake to support the next stage of the Company's growth.
Chris Good, Partner at Cinven, commented:
"Since investing in Drake in 2021, Cinven has set out to support the Company's growth plans, including expanding its presence in the professional tax preparation market, renewing its technology platform and enhancing its product offerings for the benefit of Drake's tax professional customers. The addition of TaxAct's consumer tax preparation platform will further strengthen Drake's capabilities to anticipate and serve the needs of all types of customers as today's tax landscape becomes increasingly sophisticated. This transaction exemplifies Cinven's track record of working with companies to support their growth and capability expansion strategies, creating better products for customers and increasing opportunities for employees."
Daniel Garin, Senior Principal at Cinven, added:
"Cinven has followed TaxAct for many years. This acquisition allows Cinven to back two leading management teams, building a stronger combined company that can win in an attractive market with substantial potential for future growth. We are excited to bring together two industry-leading, complementary businesses with shared values and a collective vision for delighting customers through product innovation and exceptional customer service. This investment builds on Cinven's strong track record in the TMT sector in North America and is continued evidence of Cinven successfully deploying its sector-country matrix to originate attractive investment opportunities."
Upon the close of the transaction, Dom Morea will remain President and Chief Executive Officer of Drake Software and Curtis Campbell will continue to lead the TaxAct business. The businesses will continue to operate under their own brands within the holding company.
The transaction is expected to close before the end of 2022, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Advisers to Cinven on the transaction included: Evercore, J.P. Morgan, and Ropes & Gray LLP.
Emerson to Sell Majority Stake in Climate Technologies to Blackstone in Transaction Valuing the Busin
Blackstone to Help Power Next Phase of Growth for Climate Technologies
ST. LOUIS and NEW YORK – October 31, 2022 – Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today announced a definitive agreement under which it will sell a majority stake in its Climate Technologies1 business to private equity funds managed by Blackstone ("Blackstone") in a transaction valuing Climate Technologies at $14.0 billion. Emerson will receive upfront, pre-tax cash proceeds of approximately $9.5 billion while retaining a non-controlling ownership interest in a new standalone joint venture.
The standalone Climate Technologies business includes the market-leading Copeland compressor business and the entire portfolio of products and services across all HVAC and refrigeration end-markets, representing approximately $5.0 billion of fiscal 2022 sales.
"Today's announcement is a definitive step in the portfolio journey we embarked on when I became CEO in early 2021," said Lal Karsanbhai, President and Chief Executive Officer of Emerson. "Over the past 18 months, the Emerson team has accelerated our portfolio transformation, divesting non-core businesses including InSinkErator and Therm-O-Disc, while investing in organic growth opportunities and important transactions including AspenTech. Our journey has been with clear purpose – to drive growth and significant value creation for our shareholders by creating a leading global automation company. Our differentiated capabilities in intelligent devices and software, and the focus, cohesiveness and operating agility of a pure-play company, will allow Emerson to bring our comprehensive automation products and solutions to a diverse set of end markets."
"This transaction enables Emerson to partially monetize our Climate Technologies business at an attractive valuation and provides significant upfront cash proceeds to invest in growth, while at the same time enabling Emerson to participate in Climate Technologies' upside potential upon exit of our non-controlling position," continued Mr. Karsanbhai. "We are excited to partner with Blackstone given its successful history of value creation in collaboration with corporate partners. We look forward to working closely with Blackstone to ensure a smooth transition for Climate Technologies' employees and customers."
Joe Baratta, Global Head of Blackstone Private Equity, commented, "Blackstone has a long and successful track record of large-scale corporate partnerships, a key pillar of our investment strategy. This is a marquee transaction for our private equity business and a testament to our ability to deliver solutions to our partners even in difficult economic and market environments. We are proud to be partnered with Emerson to help drive the next stage of growth for this great business. Copeland is the market leader in supplying critical components for residential, commercial and refrigeration climate control systems. The business is poised for accelerated growth as it leads the way in helping consumers and businesses shift to more energy-efficient heating and cooling products as part of their carbon reduction efforts. We are thrilled to back the business' dedicated team as they continue to innovate and deliver energy-efficient solutions to their customers."
Climate Technologies had fiscal 2022 net sales of $5.0 billion, pre-tax earnings of $1.0 billion and EBITDA2, including standalone costs, of $1.1 billion. The transaction values Climate Technologies at $14.0 billion, representing a multiple of 12.7x fiscal 2022 EBITDA2, including standalone costs. Emerson will receive upfront, pre-tax cash proceeds of approximately $9.5 billion and a note of $2.25 billion at close and retain 45% common equity ownership of the standalone Climate Technologies business, which will be structured as a joint venture between Emerson and Blackstone, until its potential sale or IPO. The cash consideration will be funded by $5.5 billion of fully committed debt financing ($6.2 billion inclusive of an unfunded ABL facility) and $4.4 billion of equity contribution from Blackstone. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and GIC will invest alongside Blackstone as part of the transaction.
Timing and Other Details
The transaction has been unanimously approved by Emerson's Board of Directors and is expected to close in the first half of the calendar year 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
Operating results for Climate Technologies, and previously announced divestitures, InSinkErator, which is expected to close later today, and Therm-O-Disc, will be reported in discontinued operations in the first fiscal quarter of 2023. Included in Emerson's continuing operations will be Automation Solutions, Safety & Productivity, and AspenTech.
As part of the transaction, Emerson will be right sizing its corporate and platform cost structure and will sell ownership of its St. Louis, Missouri campus to the joint venture. Emerson will enter a three-year lease on the headquarters with an option to extend a further two years. During that time, Emerson will undertake a comprehensive assessment of potential headquarters locations.
Centerview Partners LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC are serving as financial advisors to Emerson, and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is serving as legal counsel. Barclays served as lead financial advisor to Blackstone. Guggenheim Securities, LLC and Evercore also provided financial advisory services to Blackstone. The ABL revolver and TLA portion of the debt financing related to the transaction is led by RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Wells Fargo and SMBC. Additional financing is provided in the form of a private Term Loan by a consortium of lenders. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is acting as legal counsel to Blackstone.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global technology and software company providing innovative solutions for the world's most essential industries. Emerson is an automation leader that helps process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduce emissions and achieve their sustainability goals through its unmatched automation portfolio, including its majority stake in AspenTech. For more information, visit Emerson.com.
About Blackstone
Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $951 billion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical may be "forward-looking" statements, which involve risks and uncertainties, and Emerson undertakes no obligation to update any such statements to reflect later developments. These risks and uncertainties include the Company's ability to successfully complete on the terms and conditions contemplated, and the financial impact of, the proposed Climate Technologies transaction, the proposed sale of its InSinkErator food waste disposal business, the scope, duration and ultimate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as well as economic and currency conditions, market demand, including related to the pandemic and oil and gas price declines and volatility, pricing, protection of intellectual property, cybersecurity, tariffs, competitive and technological factors, inflation, among others, as set forth in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.
1Climate Technologies refers to the reported segment excluding Therm-O-Disc, divestiture closed May 2022.
2EBITDA, including standalone costs, of $1.1 billion was adjusted by the following: $0.15 billion of depreciation and amortization expense and $0.05 billion of standalone costs to arrive at pretax earnings of $1.0 billion.
For Emerson:
Colleen Mettler
Joseph Sala / Tanner Kaufman
Charlotte Boyd
For Blackstone:
Matthew.Anderson@blackstone.com


Randi Weingarten vows to donate 2,000 books to Providence schools after speaking with a second-grade teacher who told her that her children had moved from reluctant readers to voracious ones.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, swooped through two Providence schools Thursday, hugging teachers, praising their work and chiding Mayor Jorge Elorza for not restarting contract negotiations with the union.
Weingarten, who is in town to participate in meetings of the Democratic National Committee's rules and bylaws committee, said she was visiting schools to "lift up" the thoughtful work being done every day by Providence teachers.
She also threw her support behind Gov. Gina Raimondo's $250-million bond proposal to repair the state's aging schools.
"This is a state where the powers that be have not given enough to the kids," she said, standing outside Mount Pleasant High School, where a sweeping black net keeps the bricks in place. "This netting is up to stop bricks from falling from the building. I also wanted to see the extraordinary work being done by our kids."
Weingarten, who represents 1.7 million teachers nationwide, rallied teachers in March 2011 after they were all pink-slipped by then-Mayor Angel Taveras. She said she had been briefed on the latest contract impasse by leaders of the Providence Teachers' Union.
Providence Teachers' Union President Maribeth Calabro said that when she sat down with Elorza three weeks ago, he promised to get back to the bargaining table, but nothing has happened.
Weingarten said the mayor should have joined School Superintendent Christopher N. Maher, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner and leaders of the teachers' union on her tour of Mount Pleasant and Pleasant View Elementary School.
"He should have walked around with us and looked at the great work that's being done by our kids and our teachers," she said.
Weingarten also promised to donate 2,000 books to the Providence schools after speaking with a second-grade teacher who told her that her children had moved from reluctant readers to voracious ones. She said she will donate a gift certificate for 2,000 books that she received from First Books, a nonprofit that buys overstocked materials and gives them to schools and libraries.
Weingarten dove into her school tour, jumping into a giant inflatable bouncy house and riding the slide with a bunch of excited students at Pleasant View. In every classroom, she scrunched down to ask what students were learning and gave every teacher a hug.
"Your work is heroic," she told second-grade teacher Claudia Jackvony.
"This is an amazing teacher," she told a visitor. "How many adults can manage 20 to 30 people?"
When Jackvony heard that she was getting 2,000 books, she said, "This is better than being named Teacher of the Year!"
Maher said that Providence teachers are allowed to choose whatever model of blended learning works best for them. Blended learning uses technology to individualize instruction. Maher said he tries to empower teachers so they can innovate. Weingarten agreed, and said it was important to treat teachers like skilled professionals, not children.


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Q: Logical OR with a variable and a function definition as operands I saw this line when I was reading a custom library created by a third party developers. What does this do in Javascript? Does it perform Logical OR on "modifier" and a return value from the function?
modifier = modifier || function( x ){ return x; };

A: It returns modifier, if it has a truthy value, like function. Otherwise it returns a function without calling it.

A: Yes.  In JavaScript, the || returns the left if it is a truthy value or the right if the left is a falsy value.
Effectively, if modifier is already a function, it will just leave it set.  If it is undefined or null, it will set a reference to the right side function.  It will not evaluate the function, however.
It would look like this if evaluated.
modifier = modifier || function( x ){ return x; }(); // notice the method invocation

A: The || operator is a lazy one. If it has the means necessary to compute it's value it doesn't evaluate the rest of the expression. The value of the logical operation OR is true when one of the parameters is true, so if modifier is considered to be a true value it will return itself and when not it returns the second parameter.
To see what is considered true in JS check here.

A: Yes.
More in detail, it checks if modifier evaluates to true; in this case it assigns modifier value to modifier variable (noop); otherwise it assigns an anonymous function to modifier.


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